-@c Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+@c Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GAS manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file as.texinfo.
Block comments are delimited by @samp{/*} and @samp{*/}. End of line
comments may be introduced with either @samp{#} or @samp{//}.
+If a @samp{#} appears as the first character of a line then the whole
+line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be
+a logical line number directive (@pxref{Comments}) or a preprocessor
+control command (@pxref{Preprocessing}).
+
Instructions consist of a leading opcode or macro name followed by
whitespace and an optional comma-separated list of operands:
@var{opcode} [@var{operand}, @dots{}]
@end smallexample
-Instructions must be separated by a newline or semicolon.
+Instructions must be separated by a newline or semicolon (@samp{;}).
FLIX instructions, which bundle multiple opcodes together in a single
instruction, are specified by enclosing the bundled opcodes inside